Practice Areas
Gang Crimes
Protecting Your Rights When Charged With Gang Crimes
At the Los Angeles offices of Seymour I. Amster, Attorney at Law, we have an outstanding record of success in representing clients accused of gang affiliation or crimes committed for the benefit of a gang, or who face additional punishment because a crime is alleged to be gang-related.
Contact any of our locations throughout Southern California for a free consultation with a defense lawyer who knows how to develop and execute effective strategies in gang cases. Even if you are not a gang member, that won't stop the district attorney from trying to convince the court you committed a crime to benefit the gang. Our approach to your defense will focus on the facts of your particular case while tapping into our long experience with cases like yours.
Call 800-972-1740 for sound advice about gang crime charges
The first step in defending you against a gang charge is to take the initiative on the underlying criminal charge:
- Murder
- Gun charges
- Drug trafficking
- Drug possession with intent to deliver
- Criminal threats or intimidation
- Prostitution
- Armed robbery
- Third strike charges
- Juvenile felony charges of all kinds
Our experience with each of these serious offenses means that we can go to work right away on the evidence against you and seek dismissal or reduction of the charges, so that you're exposed to less risk of punishment.
At the same time, we attack the allegations of gang affiliation or the relationship between gang membership and the particular crime charged. Once the label of gang association has been placed upon you, it will create problems for you for a long time.
We also make sure that the prosecution and the jury receive the whole picture. Nobody is just a gang member. Because the district attorney will try to tell the jury that you're a monster, we counter their bias with evidence about the positive contributions you have made to your family, your school, your job and your community. Our complete portrait will be based on solid evidence and testimony from the people who know you as you really are.
We also represent people covered under so-called gang injunctions
Sometimes an outburst of violence in a particular community will result in a sweeping injunction against gang activity. While these might be popular with the media, they are very often unconstitutional as applied to individuals. If you're experiencing increased police harassment or restrictions in your movements due to a gang injunction, call criminal defense lawyer Seymour Amster for dependable advice.
With offices in Van Nuys, Lancaster, West Covina, downtown L.A., and throughout Southern California, we offer dependable representation on gang prosecutions throughout Southern California. Contact the law firm of Seymour I. Amster, Attorney at Law, for additional information.
